The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Sattler, Barbara M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108477909 ISBN 13 : 9781108477901

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible. With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental framework with which we conceptualise motion today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Sattler is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She works mainly on metaphysics and natural philosophy in the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108477909
• ISBN 13: 9781108477901
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie